Thus, the dear leader (or “daddy,” as some European leaders have grown fond of calling him) instructed his officials to “start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities where tremendous progress has been made.”
The erratic tariff policy pursued by the U.S. president and his administration has so far mainly served to strengthen ties between countries in the Global South and Beijing, and, where relevant, Moscow.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.